Particle Cosmology - Cosmo09

14 Sept 2009, 08:00 → 18 Sept 2009, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Antonio Riotto (CERN), Edward Kolb, Gia Dvali (CERN), Gian Giudice (CERN), Glenn Starkman, John Ellis (CERN), Julien Lesgourgues (CERN), Steen Hannestad (Aarhus)

The aim of this Institute is to encourage discussion and interaction among cosmologists and astroparticle theorists, just after the COSMO 09 conference held at CERN the week before. The schedule will in general contain two short talks in the morning hours, followed by informal discussions. The same will be repeated in the afternoon. There will still be plenty of time for work and interactions.

Registration. Registration is closed by now. There are no registration fees.

Talks. The list of selected talks and the preliminary program are available on-line (see the left menu0.

Accomodation. Participants are expected to arrange their accomodation by themselves:

• some rooms with shower, wc and washbasin have been blocked in the CERN hostel for the conference (price: 58CHF/night). Unfortunately, all these rooms have already been booked.
• You can also book a hotel in Geneva or in the area surrounding CERN using this list. If you book a hotel on the French side, be sure to have a passport or a visa valid also in France.

All participants are expected to be in possession of a passport or a visa valid in Swizerland (if relevant), and to be covered by their own health insurance during their visit.

Sponsors. This conference is receiving support from the European Community's Marie Curie Research and Training Network UniverseNet.

Monday, 14 September

10:30 → 12:00 Session I

10:30 Preheating in the Standard Model

Speaker: Juan GARCIA-BELLIDO (UAM Madrid)

11:00 Non-Gaussian Spikes from Chaotic Billiards in Preheating

Speaker: Zhiqi HUANG (CITA)

11:30 discussion

15:30 → 17:00 Session II

15:30 Supersymmetric Dark Matter in Light of Recent Data

Speaker: Leszek Roszkowski

16:00 Non-abelian dark matter

Speaker: Jim CLINE (McGill)

16:30 discussion

Tuesday, 15 September

10:30 → 12:00 Session III

10:30 Chameleons in Cosmology, Astrophysics and the Laboratory

Speaker: Anne C. Davis

11:00 Non-Gaussianities of superhorizon curvature perturbations: beyond delta-N formalism

Speaker: Yuichi TAKAMIZU

11:30 discussion

15:30 → 17:00 Session IV

15:30 Primordial non-Gaussianity and LSS: redshift space distortions

Speaker: Tsz Yan LAM (IPMU Tokyo)

16:00 Non-gaussianity in the matter power spectrum from the Time Renormalization Group

Speaker: Massimo Pietroni (Padova)

16:30 discussion

Wednesday, 16 September

10:30 → 12:00 Session V

10:30 Leptophilic models for neutrino masses and dark matter

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (Unknown)

11:00 Sterile neutrinos as Dark Matter

Speaker: Oleg RUCHAYSKYI (EPFL)

11:30 discussion

15:30 → 17:00 Session VI

15:30 Inflation and reheating with nonperturbative decay of MSSM flat directions

Speaker: Emir GUMRUKCUOGLU (Minnesota)

16:00 Preheating after modular inflation

Speaker: Neil BARNABY (CITA)

16:30 discussion

Thursday, 17 September

10:30 → 12:00 Session VII

10:30 Statistical anisotropy of the curvature perturbation from vector field perturbations

Speaker: David LYTH (Lancaster)

11:00 Inflation and Dark Energy: new cosmological constraints

Speaker: Raul JIMENEZ

11:30 discussion

15:30 → 17:00 Session VIII

15:30 Constraints on generating the curvature perturbation and non-Gaussianity

Speaker: Christian BYRNES (Heidelberg)

16:00 Inflation and Reheating in Induced Gravity

Speaker: Fabio FINELLI (INAF Bologna)

16:30 discussion

Friday, 18 September

10:30 → 12:00 Session IX

10:30 How robust are the predictions of the curvaton scenario?

Speaker: Sami NURMI (Heidelberg)

11:00 Non-Gaussianity and Baryogenesis

Speaker: Tomo TAKAHASHI (Saga, Japan)

11:30 discussion